Idaho & Oregon

As we climbed out of Salt Lake City, we climbed into winter. Darn, the weather is going to be a problem...

For the next two days, as we finished up the Nevada Barr book we've been reading about winter on Isle Royale, we were rained on, sleeted on, hailed on and snowed on. We camped both nights on the Snake River where the wind blew white caps on the water. We're wondering if we should have delayed our arrival in Washington until the first of May instead of April. Too late now. Al scraped the ice off the windshield, and we hoped for the best.

It is a little scary pulling a 40' RV up a mountain in heavy snow that is accumulating on the ground...and there is the coming down the other side!! We stopped at Dead Man's Pass coming across the Blue Mountains in Oregon to play in the snow. Al thought it a good time to revisit my poor judgement in disposing of his tire chains along with the house in Pensacola. I pointed out my good judgement in keeping one ice scraper in the truck...the one with the snow brush on one end!

All's well that ends well. We left the snowy mountains behind and descended to the high desert of eastern Washington state. Wine Country...our home for the next 6 months.